EA/Maxis has found the Nvidia problem!
MistyBlue:
Tis true, Kat. But when I disable the damn things, I want them down for good. I know what I'm doing, though and I don't suggest msconfig to anyone who would use a Windoze fer Dummies book to walk them through it. It's just a different and (for me) easier way to go through the list of startup processes and disable them.
KatEnigma:
;) Well for the startup stuff, I go into msconfig myself. LOL And have googled for anything I don't recognize off-hand. It's the only thing I've done since I rebuilt, too. I really should go in and shut down Microsoft's crap.
Kristalrose:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 March 13, 23:56:41
Quote from: Kristalrose on 2008 March 13, 22:21:12
I find this all very interesting. I am also having problems with nVidia since I installed BV, but no BSoD, just a lot of graphic artifacts and distortions.
Artifacts and distortions that appear over time are generally a sign of overheating.
They don't appear over time. They'll show up at random times, and sometimes from the neighborhood screen when I first open the 'hood. :( Worse when I use shaders or camera mods. I've tried to snap screenshots to post here and ask how to fix, but every screenshot I've taken does not show the distrotion. The flash of the camera corrects the problem. LOL I guess I could use Print Screen, just hadn't thought about it.
Okay, when I Alt-Ctrl-Delete it shows that I have 70 processes going. I remember back in the olden days of TS1 there was a program that would cut off all the unnecessary background programs so that the game would run a little smoother. Is that what this Black Viper program does, Kat? Or, is there another program out there that does this? I know that I do not need 70 processes going. . . and I don't know what is necessary and what is not. It would seem that all I'd need in reality are the "System" processes, right?
Sivany:
Quote from: Kristalrose on 2008 March 16, 13:52:56
Okay, when I Alt-Ctrl-Delete it shows that I have 70 processes going. I remember back in the olden days of TS1 there was a program that would cut off all the unnecessary background programs so that the game would run a little smoother. Is that what this Black Viper program does, Kat? Or, is there another program out there that does this? I know that I do not need 70 processes going. . . and I don't know what is necessary and what is not. It would seem that all I'd need in reality are the "System" processes, right?
Wow 70! This makes me feel a lot better, I only have 28. I always shut down unnecessary ones from inside task manager, as far as I know anything that has the name of your windows account under the column user name can be closed down with the exception of explorer, although obviously this might be different for you. I sometimes do this before I run the game but since there are only about 4 processes that I can turn off taking up under 0.5Mb it doesn't really make a lot of difference, might do if you have 70 running though!
bowrain:
You really should look at your msconfig and turn off autostart for all the unnecessary apps. I'm using vista and I only have 13 including the AV.
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